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Do You Have Joint Custody With A Jerk?

I have read a lot of stepfamily and custody books over the years, trying to find some bit of help for a situation filled with conflict and hate. I came across a book that not only had useful information in it, but made me laugh out loud many times. It stayed on my nightstand for quite a while as a reminder and for a laugh.

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>> Friday, January 8, 2010

Does the ex show favoritism for one of your stepchildren over another? I sometimes wonder about mine but I've never outright asked the kids because I sure wouldn't want to point it out or accuse without knowing for sure. Here's why I wonder...

For Christmas, it seems like my stepson gets hugely expensive gifts and my stepdaughter doesn't. This past Christmas, my stepson got a laptop and my stepdaughter got CD's and DVD's she said. We were wanting to look at netbooks or laptops for my stepdaughter for graduation but now I wish we'd had the money to do it this year instead of waiting for next year. Last year, he got an expensive guitar and she got...CD's and DVD's she said.

In terms of discipline, my stepson has always skated with no discipline over some pretty bad behavior over the years while my stepdaughter gets grounded for a month at a time. He also cusses like a sailor (while she doesn't). She's the honors student and he's the one who almost failed every year of junior high.

I really hope that my stepdaughter doesn't feel singled out or slighted at all.

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the Ex completely favors SS over her four other children (not with my Husband). I know this too be true not only from what SS tells us, but from the words out of her mouth directly. She has said to me directly that because SS is her baby and her last of 5 kids it really makes her love him more. Yes, and she said this in front of 2 of her other children.

As a mother I can not imagine loving one child over the other. My kids are completely different in so many ways, but I love them so much and in just different ways. No more, no less.

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I am mom to four children and stepmom to two through 18 years of marriage so far (and counting), who has angrily watched the manipulation of children thru the years that should bring shame to any adult doing so. What is done by one parent to hurt the other parent hurts the children most. This blog is my emotional venting place through blended family chaos. If you don't like honest emotions in a longstanding, difficult situation, you might not like my blog. I'd go find a blog where they have pretty unicorns flying over rainbows if I were you then.

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